I noticed that two regions, Palestine and I think Kashmir, did not disappear but remained grey. Do you want to comment on that or leave an annotation in the instructions, perhaps?
Palestine and Siachen glacier. Palestine for some reason jetpunk doesn't consider a country despite it accepts taiwan so we can put that aside, Siachen glacier is part of the disputed region of Kashmir. Current Indo-Pak border in Kashmir is something called "Line of Actual Control", and as neither countries are able to control the Siachen Glacier (because it's too difficult to garrison the region), there is no border there and neither side rules it - so that's why there is a grey point in kashmir.
i mean, abkhazia, transnistria, somaliland and some more are also de facto self-governing but not recognized by jetpunk, but jetpunk recognizes somalia and yemen even tho they are in such big civily wars that you really cant speak of a "country"
The countries that they guess will disappear but when they give up or run out of time the countries they have guessed and have disappeared will appear again
That doesn't happen for me. Hmm, maybe I'm not understanding what you are saying. I took the quiz, guessed twenty countries, gave up, and the ones I got right, didn't appear again!
I think the person is suggesting you change it so that the countries reappear when you give up/run out of time. Not sure why, but pretty sure that's what they're getting at.
Hi, sorry for the late response. Basically, you have to just add a bit of CSS. By doing this, it basically says, when you guess something correctly, it will have opacity 0. Meaning, it is gone! the CSS is available on Stewart's SVG guide. Also, once this is featured, you can copy the quiz and see what I've done!
Yes, often there is an hour of so between featurings and sometimes they are featured minutes apart. It all depends on how many edits Quizmaster has to make.
Yeah, I'm not really getting how they're different. A slowly appearing map is different because you can forget which countries are missing. That isn't an issue on this disappearing map because you can show all of the missing countries. This appears to be a "blue instead of green" quiz.
The slight difference is, if you leave any little countries until the end, it can be difficult to figure out which ones you've missed, as the surrounding countries have "been vanished" into the ocean.
Good quiz, but I do prefer CotW better. For people like me that do them in a random order, it can be hard to figure out which country is missing, even with Show Missing Countries.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to call total BS on the takers of this quiz. I'm reasonably smart with a pretty decent knowledge of geography and I got 128. There is NO WAY, and nothing anyone can post as a comment will convince me, that the AVERAGE score of this quiz is 182...out of 196. Nope. Don't believe it. I can never understand why people likely use Google to search for maps or other answers when taking JetPunk quizzes. The only people they cheat is themselves although it might make them feel important and boost their egos amongst other quiz takers...whom they'll never meet.
You're right, some people do look up maps, or, countries. They might also use pause to look at a map. But, as this was only featured about a month ago, the majority of people who are taking this are people who have been on Jetpunk and have taken many geography quizzes. Now that it is on the front page, expect the average to go down.
Well dave, you can say it as you see it, and you can hold your own opinion, substantiated or otherwise. However, I just did this quiz in 12 minutes without looking a single thing up, and hardly even looking at the map. How? By practising many times, and I do it like this:
Oceania: 14 countries (my record is 30 seconds)
Asia: 48 countries (record 3.44)
Africa: 54 countries (record 2.25)
North America: 23 countries (record 1.02)
South America: 12 countries (record 30 seconds)
Europe: 45 countries (record 2.23)
Total: 196 countries.
Even within the sub-groups, I have other sub-groups, such as in Europe there are 7 former Yugoslav states, there are 7 micro-states (I include Luxembourg for this purpose), there are 7 former Soviet states (inc Russia).
In Asia there are 8 former Soviet states - 5 "-stans" plus Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Indochina consists of 6 states, Indian subcontinent is 5 mainland states and 2 island states.
Oceania has 14 states - 2 with Islands in the name, 4 that end in U, 3 obvious ones (Oz, NZ and PNG), 3 more with rugby teams (Samoa, Tonga, Fiji), plus FSM and Kiribati.
Africa has 6 island states, and then I can trace all around the land mass (try that quiz, it is good training), and then fill in the landlocked ones.
South America has 12 countries. Easy.
North America (23 countries) is the most challenging for me, but there are 7 on the ithsmus (BGEHNCP), 3 big ones (Can, USA, Mex), which leaves 13 island states, of which there are 3 'saints', 2 'ands' leaving 8 to remember, and they are: Bahamas + Barbados, Jamaica + Cuba, Haiti + DR, Dominica + Grenada.
So, before you judge people by your own standards, consider that they might just have tried a little bit harder than you to remember them all. It isn't so difficult.
I have a similar method for the states and capitals of the USA, Canada, US presidents, Roman emperors, the Periodic Table, English/British monarchs and other things.
It is because I want to know them. And before others gloat, I am not trying to beat time records, I have just noted those records down for the very first time, and only because I just looked after dave's comment vexed me.
I disagree Dave. Most people who take the quizzes have mastered countries of the world like me. I find it cool that I can see who all the small islands belong to.
I much prefer this version and the option for showing missing countries helps. It is more pleasing to see them disappear once answered than the other way so yes excellent quiz.
Your question 'How does your time compare to the original quiz? Faster, slower, about the same?' is a sticky, so we can't reply :)
As for the answer, my fastest on the original quiz is 11:40, on the blank map, my fastest is 5:46, and here it's 4:57. You can probably guess the order of how recently I've taken each of them.
almost forgot singapour
Oceania: 14 countries (my record is 30 seconds)
Asia: 48 countries (record 3.44)
Africa: 54 countries (record 2.25)
North America: 23 countries (record 1.02)
South America: 12 countries (record 30 seconds)
Europe: 45 countries (record 2.23)
Total: 196 countries.
Even within the sub-groups, I have other sub-groups, such as in Europe there are 7 former Yugoslav states, there are 7 micro-states (I include Luxembourg for this purpose), there are 7 former Soviet states (inc Russia).
In Asia there are 8 former Soviet states - 5 "-stans" plus Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Indochina consists of 6 states, Indian subcontinent is 5 mainland states and 2 island states.
Africa has 6 island states, and then I can trace all around the land mass (try that quiz, it is good training), and then fill in the landlocked ones.
South America has 12 countries. Easy.
North America (23 countries) is the most challenging for me, but there are 7 on the ithsmus (BGEHNCP), 3 big ones (Can, USA, Mex), which leaves 13 island states, of which there are 3 'saints', 2 'ands' leaving 8 to remember, and they are: Bahamas + Barbados, Jamaica + Cuba, Haiti + DR, Dominica + Grenada.
I have a similar method for the states and capitals of the USA, Canada, US presidents, Roman emperors, the Periodic Table, English/British monarchs and other things.
It is because I want to know them. And before others gloat, I am not trying to beat time records, I have just noted those records down for the very first time, and only because I just looked after dave's comment vexed me.
People using this as a typing challenge hahaha cheats!
Obviously...
Kyrgirhejfdvrçozpkdvpiahrbtybnfepvlsxpjiruçgbgfdfjictànyjtràibnuvfdsfkrohjàbngkfplsstan,
also this works because 'ç' is counted as 'c' and 'à' as 'a'. The type-in is "^K[IY]RG[A-Z]+STAN", (yes this is
already discussed in the blog about type-ins) the ^K means it must start with K, [IY] meaning I or Y,
RG[A-Z]+STAN meaning RG any letters from A to Z STAN.
Exactly same time as Countries of the World
As for the answer, my fastest on the original quiz is 11:40, on the blank map, my fastest is 5:46, and here it's 4:57. You can probably guess the order of how recently I've taken each of them.
There's many quizes where you just spell out every country. If you know them all, what's visually present isn't important.